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To be near unto God - pagina 431
Henceayoungchild learns prayer to Jesusmorethan direct prayer to the Most High God. He does not express in his little prayer anything original. He only repeats something, and when he first weaves something into his prayer himself, it is not worship, but the requ ...
To be near unto God - pagina 432
of heart shows itself, it is about at age that God himself takes mother's task in hand, and allures the lad or the young girl into a first personal prayer, which is born from an owndisposition thisimpulse.But from this on to the moment in which the soul cries out: "O God, my ...
To be near unto God - pagina 433
between the life of the soul and life in the world has then been regulated. The little boat no longer drifts with the caprice of wind and wave-beat. A rudder has been provided, a compass has been taken aboard, the lee-boards can be let down sideways. And thus the soul can direct its own course as ...
To be near unto God - pagina 434
egotism, and coveteous selfishness. A presumptuous claim of God for oneself. "My God" with no thought of others. This sin in prayer is wondrously overcome in the ''Our Father." This alway prays: Not give me, but give us our daily bread; not forgive me, but forgive us our debts; not deliver me, bu ...
To be near unto God - pagina 435
way, and revealing himself to us in mystical sensations which have a character of their own and bear an original stamp. He knows us and we are known of him, such as is not possible with another person who is differently constituted than ourselves. He is the "One Sun," which glistens differently i ...
To be near unto God - pagina 436
he needs. Not only the most-special Providence, but also the most special self-revelation of his Divine Majesty in the mirror of the life of each And when it comes to this, but also only soul. then, there rises from the heart of itself spontaneously the jubilant exclamation of worship: "O God my ...
To be near unto God - pagina 437
The main point with it all is, that our nature has been so created and disposed, that it prefers immediate sight. And that it carries this even into the spiritual desire to see, rather than to arrive at insight by exercise of thought, is not a defect in us, neither is it a result of sin, but a Di ...
To be near unto God - pagina 438
That nature, andlife itself, is full of imagery, greater significance. The Bible, more than any other book, employs it, by which to show us the spiritual. Apart from picture and print, and aside from the emblem, it is this imagery which does not stand by the side of the Word, but enters in ...
To be near unto God - pagina 439
ing heat such as in the desert of the East can prostrate life. And see, quietly and with majesty, a thick cloud passes over the desert levels, and sunlight no more blinds, and sunheat no more burns, and the traveler breathes again, refreshed and restored by the Divine shadow from above. Shade son ...
To be near unto God - pagina 440
whom you see before you, and whose assault is upon you, you need a shield, and he who in such threatening moments has sought his shield with God, has always found it there. But it is entirely different when heat brings burnings which can not be grasped, which from the mysterious background of our ...
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